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TECHNOGENARIANS
STUDYING HEALTH AND ILLNESS THROUGH AN AGEING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY LENS |
| By: |
Kelly Joyce (Editor), Meika Loe (Editor) |
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Electronic book text |
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£23.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444391534 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444391534 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
13 August, 2010 |
| Series: |
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Technogenarians investigates the older person's experiences of health, illness, science, and technology. It presents a greater theoretical and empirical understanding of the biomedical aspects of aging bodies, minds, and emotions, and the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions. |
| Synopsis: |
Technogenarians investigates the older person?s experiences of health, illness, science, and technology. It presents a greater theoretical and empirical understanding of the biomedical aspects of aging bodies, minds, and emotions, and the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions--. A unique scholarly investigation into elders as technology usersEmphasizes the need to put aging, science, and technology in the center of analyses of health and illnessExplores the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions- Offers a critical study of the transformation of aging bodies, minds, and emotions into medical problems in need of medical solutions Combines two scholarly areas - Science and Technology Studies and the Sociology of Aging, Health, and Illness - to produce innovative scholarship |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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